This is a new edition of the best of Pixar & beyond. Pixar are the animation giants behind incredible movies including Monsters Inc" " Finding Nemo" " Wall.E" " Up" & now " Toy Story 3". Go behind-the-scenes & find out all there is to know about this extraordinary company. Learn about the fascinating rise of Pixar from their history & creative talent to the secrets behind their unique movie-making process. From Woody to Lightening Mc Queen discover little-known facts & trivia about the characters from all their major & short films. Plus pick up inside knowledge from which fishy character pops up in " Monsters Inc" to why the number A113 appears in all Pixar films. Packed with timelines fantastic pictures & movie-stills this is an essential guide to the ultimate movie-making machine." ...

The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock disappearing as not-quite-the-next-big-things only to become gods in absentia. Doolittle" is their knotty masterpiece the embodiment of the Pixies abrasive exuberant enigmatic pop. Informed by exclusive interviews with the band Sisario looks at the making of the album & its place in rock history & studies its continued influence in light of the Pixies triumphant reunion." ...

There are hours of fun to be had with this unique pizza-shaped book which comes in its own pizza box! Make your own silly pizza faces with the fifty felt pieces & five felt play-areas built into the book. Then flip the book to follow the recipes & make the real thing
- but dont forget to put on your chefs hat first! Bright artwork from illustrator Stephen Barker teamed with fun instructive text & playful packaging give this book unbeatable play value.
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Incredible pizzas & authentic Italian recipes from street-foodie brothers who have taken London by storm. Pizza Pilgrims is ...

PLAB Part I in a Box is designed for PLAB candidates & medical students preparing for their finals. Completely up to date with latest developments in the PLAB exam PLAB Part I in a Box covers a broad range of topics including: Medicine Surgery Obstetrics & Gynaecology Paediatrics Psychiatry Orthopaedics Dermatology Ophthalmology Otorhinolaryngology Behavioural Science Palliative Care Ethics Statistics Clinical Physiology Genetics & Clinical Pharmacology. The questions are in the format of EMQs (Extended Matching Questions) & SBAs (Single Best Answers) making this an essential revision aid for all candidates sitting the PLAB exam. The aim of this new card format is to make your exam preparation time as efficient & straightforward as possible. They also lend themselves very well to studying with a partner or colleague. Were sure you will find the In a Box series to be a useful & practical resource in your Royal College exam preparation. ...

In a brutal world charismatic rebel miner Mack Mc Ash
- a slave by birth
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A redemptive & captivating novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of PS. I Love You. Ever wondered where lost things go? Ever since the day her classmate vanished Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something -- or someone -- disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother who vanished into thin air a year ago. He spots an ad for Sandys missing persons agency & is certain that she will answer his prayers & find his brother. But then Sandy disappears too stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants more than anything is to find her way home. ...

Joseph Tallantire has hope & ambition
- like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself & improve his
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This book is all about a sense of place about our fascination with the fact that wherever we are in the world were living breathing feeling & thinking where thousands of other people have done so before us. That fascination is heightened when the location in question has been the scene of great events
- sometimes joyous sometimes calamitous
- a place where history was made. Colin Philpott Director of the National Media Museum takes us on a personal journey around Great Britain to visit destinations such as sports stadiums that were built to stage great events or places made famous by a single event such as a disaster or an event of social political or cultural significance. It also examines what has happened to those places touched by history how changing uses reflect changes in society particularly in economic circumstances & in leisure time. Above all it is a journey to inspire further exploration & discovery & an enduring sense of place.

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From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz" & " Across the Land & Water comes". "A Place in the Country" the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald the prize-winning author of " Austerlitz" travelled to Manchester in 1966 he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life & during the years when he was settled in Engl&. In "A Place in the Country" he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person & as a writer from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography & essay & finding as ever inspiration in place
- as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre the tiny lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace & inspiration
- Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive inimitable voice. A " Place in the Country" is a window into the mind of this much loved & much missed writer. Praise for W.G. Sebald: "A new kind of writing combining fiction memoir travelogue philosophy & much else besides...greatness in literature is still possible". (John Banville " Irish Times"). " When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience". (" Literary Review"). " Is literary greatness still possible? One of the few answers available to English-Language readers is the work of W.G. Sebald". (Susan Sontag). W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau Germany in 1944. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg Switzerland & Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & the author of " Austerlitz"; " The Emmigrants" which won a series of major awards including the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Boll Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize."

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